Somalia: Baidoa Rocked By Twin Bombings (AllAfrica.com)
At least 6 people have been killed and 20 hurt by three bombs in a residential area of the Somali city of Baidoa town on Friday night, eyewitnesses said.
Somalia: New Fatwa Riles Islamist Factions (AllAfrica.com)
Islamist groups waging war in Somalia against the country’s feeble, foreign-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) have been riled by a new fatwa issued earlier this month by self-appointed Somali clerics.
Somali government vows to name new cabinet fast (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The main priority for Somalia’s interim government is to form a new cabinet within 15 days as demanded by east African leaders at crisis talks in Kenya, the Somali prime minister said on Friday.
Somalia’s pirate problem grows more rampant (Los Angeles Times)
For many Somalis on the coast, piracy is the only way to earn a living in a country without a functioning government and faced with soaring inflation, civil war and rising malnutrition. Reporting from Haradhere, Somalia, and Nairobi, Kenya — Straddling a wooden crate filled with $1 million in cash ransom, a cranky old pirate bellows names from a notebook as his anxious, bleary-eyed minions …
Somalia (Somaliland/Puntland): Amnesty International condemns bomb attacks in Hargeisa and Bossasso (Amnesty International)
Amnesty International condemns a series of suicide bomb attacks carried out mid-morning on Wednesday 29 October in Hargeisa, Somaliland and Bossaso, Puntland
‘Somalia homicide bombings facilitated by al Qaeda’ (New Kerala)
Washington, Oct 31 : A US intelligence official has said that the series of homicide bombings in Somalia on Wednesday were probably the work of a local group that was likely facilitated by al Qaeda.
Kenya on heightened terror alert after Somali bombings (EARTHtimes.org)
Nairobi – Kenya was on a heightened terror alert Friday after recent suicide bombings in neighbouring Somalia and the arrest Thursday in Nairobi of a man carrying what were believed to be detonators. Five suicide bombs in the breakaway Somali regions…
Somalia: Somaliland Police Search for Clues After Terror Attacks (AllAfrica.com)
Authorities in Somalia’s breakaway northern republic of Somaliland are searching for clues following Wednesday’s triple suicide attacks that killed at least 23 people, Radio Garowe reported.
Grenade Attacks Kill Three In Somalia – Witnesses (Nasdaq)
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AFP)–Grenades killed three civilians and wounded several others Friday in a southern Somalia town, witnesses said.
In Somalia, pirates live like kings (The Times of India)
BOOSAASO (SOMALIA): This may be one of the most dangerous towns in Somalia, a place where you can get kidnapped faster than you can wipe the sweat off your brow. But it is also one of the most prosperous.
Somali government vows to name new cabinet fast (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters (Adds arrests) By Wangui Kanina NAIROBI, Oct 31 (Reuters) – The main priority for Somalia’s interim government is to form a new cabinet within 15 days as demanded by east African leaders at crisis …
Somalia to form new cabinet (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation)
Caption: Definitely our main priority is the composition of a new cabinet in the time frame stipulated,” Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein told a news conference in Nairobi.
